NBA rumors on Josh Giddey, Jonathan Kuminga, and more restricted free agent negotiations

The NBA’s off -season has struck a snag, and it left both the free market and the mill of commercial rumors frozen in place. The initial wave of businesses and signatures of the offseason has been completed for weeks, but some big names have not signed. The problem: there are no teams with the available ceiling space, and this has put the restful free agents in a place with a zero lever effect.

NBA players reach a limited free agency at the end of their four -year recruit contracts if they have still not accepted an extension. The limited free agency means that a player can sign a tender sheet with any team, but its outgoing team has the right to match. Without a cap space remaining around the league, the teams try to tighten their players in contracts more suited to the teams. The four large remaining free agents have refused their offers so far, which has left the NBA off -season stuck in the mud.

Chicago goalkeeper Bulls Josh Giddey, striker of the Golden State Warriors Jonathan Kuminga, Brooklyn Nets Cam Thomas goalkeeper and the 76ers goalkeeper of Philadelphia Quentin Grimes represent the four best names left on the market for free agents, and all are restricted. The only piece of lever that these players have is to decide to play on the qualification offer – an agreement of one year which would allow them to become free agents without restriction in a year. Taking this agreement is a huge risk for players and immediately puts them late on career income, but that could bear fruit with a big season.

Here are the latest whispers on the place where things are with limited free agents at the moment.

A new team throws their hat in the Jonathan Kuminga derby

The summer of the Golden State Warriors was stuck in neutral while the team waited for the limited free agency of Jonathan Kuminga. Warriors are the only NBA team to do Nothing This summer, Kuminga sought a sign and exchange agreement elsewhere which could win the desired role.

According to ESPN, two teams were the hottest after Kuminga: The Sacramento Kings and Phoenix Suns. The interest of the Kings was reported most of the summer, but Golden State did not like the reported offer of Sacramento de Devin Carter, Dario Saric and second round choices. Phoenix could probably offer Grayson Allen in an agreement, but the basic year’s remuneration rules for Kuminga make the corresponding salary more difficult. The Kuminga agency tried to make the interest of the Bulls, according to the initiate Jake Fischer, but their own limited free agent negotiations with Giddey have stopped any momentum.

The Warriors want a first -round choice for Kuminga, and the Suns do not even have one that they can offer. Golden State is completely delusional to hold a first round. It is understandable that the Warriors want to avoid having a “bad” long -term salary in exchange for the 22 -year -old striker, but at some point, it is in their interest to finish the Kuminga agreement so that they can go to the rest of their offseason.

The Warriors would be the first rank of Al Horford, but the more it dwells on the market for free agents, the more the retirement is attractive for the 39 -year -old man. Golden State has to fill out several list places for the coming season.

A break between the Warriors and Kuminga is the best for both parties. Kuminga never won the confidence of head coach Steve Kerr in his first four years in the bay. Kerr’s reading and reaction system has never been a good choice for a player like Kuminga who has trouble treating the soil and making quick decisions. Kuminga’s size / explosiveness / strength combination gives it a major advantage as a marker, but it probably needs a more upward system if it wants to reach its potential.

I predicted that Kuminga lands with the Kings earlier this month, so I will stick to it. Suns also have a lot of meaning as a potential landing point.

Bulls, Josh Giddey negotiations becoming “tense”

The Bulls want to bring Josh Giddey back after exchanging Alex Caruso for him a year ago. The problem is that Giddey wants an agreement which pays him $ 30 million a year. The Bulls would offer an agreement around $ 20 million a year, according to Fischer.

Bulls’ team reports said the talks had been positive. Now Giddey’s team is trying to stir the leaked pot that the negotiations have not been friendly.

Giddey’s qualification offer is $ 11 million. Would he really take it? If the Bulls offer an agreement at 20 million dollars a year, Giddey would already get behind the curve of career gains, and there is no guarantee that another team will offer him the contract he wants in a year. Yes, there will be more wage ceiling space available next year in the league, but there was no rumor of outside interest for Giddey this summer. He is a particularly hard player to integrate into a good team because he has to play on the ball, and his defense and shot are both trembling. He also had turnover problems throughout his career.

Giddey is important for the future of Chicago, but the reality is that he has no leverage in this situation. If the Bulls offer an agreement for $ 80 million guaranteed over four years, this would give Giddey a chance to find a free agency without restriction at its peak (it will only have 26 years in the years) after years trying to improve its weaknesses. He is able to set up a large number in a Uptempo system built around his forces in Chicago, but that it may or not lead to victories is another question entirely.

Giddey should try to negotiate a shorter agreement with a player option if he really wants to bet on himself – in this way, he locks generational wealth while winning the ability to really test the free market at a young age. An offer of $ 90 million over four years should be the absolute maximum for Bulls. It is logical that Chicago is a little shy after concluding an agreement of $ 90 million to Patrick Williams last summer, which immediately resembles an albatrosur.

Giddey will be on the Bulls next season, the only question is how long and how much.

Net only offering Cam Thomas a two -year agreement

Cam Thomas spent her summer fighting with the media for no valid reason while leaving the market like all other limited free agents. He went from an average of 24 points per effective match last season to receive little outside interest, because Brooklyn would have offered him only an agreement below his exceptions.

Fischer reports that the Nets offer to Thomas is two years, $ 28 million. It’s just a little above the money in intermediate level exceptions, and it is the best deal that Thomas will find on the market this year. This must also be a disappointment for a player who expected a larger bag after having set up such major score figures this year.

Thomas is probably a better player than Jalen Green, but he did not have the draft pedigree to obtain an agreement around 30 million dollars per year as Green did as a former overall choice n ° 2. was simply not nice to the volume markers with a doubtful conscience and a defensive intensity. Thomas is expected to hang around in the league for a long time because of his punch, but the dream of winning a big contract to prepare it for life does not seem that it will happen.

All calm on the front of Quentin Grimes

The Mavericks exchanged Quentin Grimes because they did not want to pay him this summer. After exploding in the second half with the 76ers, Grimes still cannot find the day of pay he wants, and he is suddenly in a much deeper Philly rear area where his role is a bit of a question mark.

The Sixers let Guerschon Yabusele go to the Knicks in part in part so that they can bring Grimes back. There is a salary niche for Grimes at a little more of the intermediate level exception. This should be an easy deal, but Grimes has not yet taken it.

Grimes wanted $ 25 million a year. Like all restricted free agents this year, he will not find it.

The RFA market is not friendly with the players. Will this inspire the group of potential candidates from the FRG of next year to accept early extensions to a lower number? The additional ceiling space around the League next year will be attractive, but there is little money to make. Currently, some talented young players are tightened, and there is nothing else about this than to make an extremely risky bet on themselves.